UKCoffee.com
In the world of coffee it seems there is nothing quite like being able to view products in detail. On this we were asked to focus on clear intuitive layout and navigation. We also integrated a...
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Eurospan bookstore.com is a large, international book site selling books into all regions around the world. The site has over 130,000 product lines available for sale. This site presented particular...
View ArticleWelcome to Nude-Webdesign.com
We are pleased to welcome you to our new website, thank you for visiting us. Here we will posting regular news and updates about our work. We’ll try to split the posts into relevant categories, such as...
View ArticleMagento sidebar problem with Internet Explorer
Had an interesting little issue today with a client who previously didn’t have their Magento compare product sidebar activated. As you would expect we un commented the line from catalog.xml and flushed...
View ArticleDigiRAW
A friendly groundbreaking team of home media to digital AV specialists. DVDs, camcorder home videos, digital format conversion, rare vinyl, cassette tapes and VHS converted to Mp3 and Mp4 formats for...
View ArticleDirectorsTalk
This large, fast moving financial news portal places great emphasis on social media integration. All news articles are reposted in realtime to multiple social media platforms. Thus making information...
View ArticleNginx client_max_body_size
A recent request from a client to be able to upload larger .csv feed files from Magento admin throw up a common issue with the default config settings of Nginx. If not explicitly set,...
View ArticleSouthernPlant
This site is for a busy plant and tool hire company in Henley-on-Thames. There are a large number of products showcased on the site. A custom development for this site is the ability to display 4...
View ArticleMagento Menu Item – No Click
Here’s a quick a tip that some of you may find useful. We were asked recently by a client to disable the click on a Magento top navigation menu Item. The Item was a top level tab with several child...
View ArticleRemove autocomplete in Magento search
Magento ships with a rather slow search autocomplete feature. It’s fine if a store only has a limited number of products, but what if a store has 1000′s or even 10,000′s ? Chances are if your store has...
View ArticleNginx, Varnish cache and PHP REMOTE_ADDR
With more and more high performance web stacks using Varnish cache in front of the Nginx web server there is often a problem with PHP scripts that use the REMOTE_ADDR variable. Unless things are set up...
View ArticleFix for Magento Admin – Error 404 page not found
When moving or copying a Magento database to a new server you can sometimes end with the front end of the site working but when you try to log into Admin all you get is Error 404 Page not found. The...
View ArticleSphinx Search Error when starting – Restarting sphinxsearch: /usr/bin/searchd...
We recently came across a small problem restarting the Sphinx Search daemon on a Debian 6 server. When issuing /etc/init.d/sphinxsearch restart the following message is returned Restarting...
View ArticleInstall Sphinx Search on Debian Squeeze
You can use the apt-get repository to install Sphinx but if you want to get the latest version I recommend this method. First go to your command line login and a root user sudo su Sphinx search...
View ArticleFix port in URL (:8080) with Nginx & Varnish cache
This is one of those irritating little problems with a very simple fix. The problem occurs when accessing a URL without a trailing ‘/’. Example: www.somesite.com/subdirectory the result of this is...
View ArticlePrestige Resin Driveways
This site is a portfolio site for a home improvement company, specialising in bound resin driveways and patios. The company specialises in high end, prestigious contracts so the brief was to create a...
View ArticleHide System Files in OS X Mavericks (10.8)
Here is a quick tip if you are struggling to hide MAC system files on a machine with OS X 10.8, also known as Mavericks. In the past the easiest was way was to open a terminal window and type the...
View Article‘Access denied’ error using Nginx & PHP-FPM
I was recently asked to take a look at a new LEMP server setup which was displaying a white page with the words ‘Access denied’ in the corner when trying to access a php page. The page was not showing...
View ArticleCool Search Engine Optimisation images
A few nice search engine optimisation images I found: Search Engine Optimisation. Search Engine Optimization Is it Search Engine Optimisation or Search Engine Optimization? Google tells us what it...
View ArticleWhat Is Search Engine Optimization / SEO
I am often asked the question what is SEO? As you probably know SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. The benefits of good SEO are that it makes it easier for your customers to find you on the web...
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